AFRICA: Tunisia will prosecute six policemen over their response to a 2015 gun and grenade attack on a beach resort that killed 38 foreign holidaymakers.

AMERICAS: US President Donald Trump delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress in hopes to give hard line campaign promises a more moderate tone.

ASIA: Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif opened a key regional conference that will focus on intra-region connectivity in energy, infrastructure, transport and trade sectors.

EUROPE: The 27 remaining EU members plan on having a summit on Brexit on 06APR.

MIDDLE EAST: Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake the city from Islamic State militants.

TECHNOLOGY: French and international media outlets, supported by Google, launched “CrossCheck”, a joint fact-checking platform aimed at detecting fake information which could affect the French presidential election.

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Afghanistan: The Taliban launch attacks countrywide.

The Taliban launched suicide attacks in different parts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, including a police headquarters in the western part of the city, killing at least one and wounding several people.

A separate attack appeared to have targeted an office of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate for Security, but was quickly suppressed.

Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said a gun battle between Kabul police and an unknown number of armed attackers was ongoing.

In the northern Baghlan province, a Taliban key commander Qari Bahaudin was arrested and three of his men killed in clash for control Tala-o-Barfak district.

In the eastern Laghman province, at least two police personnel were wounded and several militants killed after Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Mehtarlam city.

Israel: The US called on the UN Human Rights Council to drop its “obsession” with the country. (AP)

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Technology: French and international media outlets, supported by Google, launched “CrossCheck”, a joint fact-checking platform aimed at detecting fake information which could affect the French presidential election. (AFP)